RICH PEDIGREE

The name may be relatively new, but at its core Walkinshaw Andretti United is a team steeped in Supercars/Australian Touring Car Championship tradition. The late Tom Walkinshaw first teamed up with Holden in the wake of the Peter Brock ‘Polarizer’ scandal in the late 1980s, forming Holden Special Vehicles as a successor to Brock’s Holden Dealer Team. Initially outsouced to Larry Perkins, Walkinshaw took the project in-house under the Holden Racing Team banner in 1990 and was rewarded with a Bathurst 1000 victory for Win Percy and Allan Grice. But it wasn’t until Group A regulations were dropped and the ATCC shifted to an all-V8 formula that HRT became a regular winner. The team’s first title came in 1996 with a young Craig Lowndes, who returned from his failed stint in Europe to…

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Autosport (Digital) - 1 Issue, 14/03/19

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